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Mayor and Civil War vets barely escape injury in Dallastown memorial parade
Vintage Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard of a Civil War veterans parade (Scott Mingus collection) After the Civil War, many veterans across the reunited nation strove to keep the memories of their...
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York’s Underground Railroad Heroes: Henry W. Grant
Detail from the 1860 Shearer & Lake Map of York County, Pa. showing Peach Bottom Township (PHMC, copy in the collection of YCHC) Henry W. Grant was born to slave parents in Cecil County, Maryland,...
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Civil War vets reconnect after 48 years in York County
Old Civil War veterans meet after the war (image provided by the descendants of Pvt. William Henry Gilbert, used in Jim McClure and Scott Mingus’s book Civil War Voices from York County, Pa.) Following...
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School group in 1895 explored old Civil War fortifications along Codorus Creek
A 15-yard long linear section of old Civil War earthworks on a particular hill in southern York County overlooking the Northern Central Railway. (Scott Mingus photo) During the late spring of 1863,...
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York’s Underground Railroad Heroes: Joseph Garretson
Detail from a PowerPoint slide by Scott Mingus. Map is from the 1860 Shearer & Lake Map of York County (YCHC) Jim McClure and I will be co-presenting a talk on the Underground Railroad in York...
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York’s Underground Railroad Heroes: Joseph Wickersham
Famed publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (above) was a friend of York County activist and school teacher Joseph Wickersham (National Archives) In the early 1800s, York County,...
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Different paths; different dreams
Amanda Berry was born a slave near Long Green in Baltimore County, Maryland. She and her mother Mariam and her siblings lived on the farm of their owner, Shadrach Green, while her father, Samuel...
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87th Pennsylvania reenactors planning Memoral Day event
The 87th Pennsylvania reenactment group, based in south-central Pennsylvania, honors the memory of the actual 87th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which served in the Union army from the...
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York County History Center To Release Underground Railroad Book: The Ground...
On September 1, 2016, the York County History Center will release the first book on the Underground Railroad ever to be published in York. Surprising, considering that from the 1820s through the early...
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More old-time donations of Civil War items to the historical society
(Glen Rock Historical Society) Cannonball reader John Hufnagle is a strong supporter of the Glen Rock Historical Society, one of the many excellent community heritage organizations to seek to preserve...
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Mayor and Civil War vets barely escape injury in Dallastown memorial parade
Vintage Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard of a Civil War veterans parade (Scott Mingus collection) After the Civil War, many veterans across the reunited nation strove to keep the memories of their...
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York’s Underground Railroad Heroes: Henry W. Grant
Detail from the 1860 Shearer & Lake Map of York County, Pa. showing Peach Bottom Township (PHMC, copy in the collection of YCHC) Henry W. Grant was born to slave parents in Cecil County, Maryland,...
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Civil War vets reconnect after 48 years in York County
Old Civil War veterans meet after the war (image provided by the descendants of Pvt. William Henry Gilbert, used in Jim McClure and Scott Mingus’s book Civil War Voices from York County, Pa.) Following...
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School group in 1895 explored old Civil War fortifications along Codorus Creek
A 15-yard long linear section of old Civil War earthworks on a particular hill in southern York County overlooking the Northern Central Railway. (Scott Mingus photo) During the late spring of 1863,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
York’s Underground Railroad Heroes: Joseph Garretson
Detail from a PowerPoint slide by Scott Mingus. Map is from the 1860 Shearer & Lake Map of York County (YCHC) Jim McClure and I will be co-presenting a talk on the Underground Railroad in York...
View ArticleClik here to view.
York’s Underground Railroad Heroes: Joseph Wickersham
Famed publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (above) was a friend of York County activist and school teacher Joseph Wickersham (National Archives) In the early 1800s, York County,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Different paths; different dreams
Amanda Berry was born a slave near Long Green in Baltimore County, Maryland. She and her mother Mariam and her siblings lived on the farm of their owner, Shadrach Green, while her father, Samuel...
View ArticleSchedule of porch talks at historic YorkCo train depots!
Do like local history? How about sitting outside of a historic train station on a warm summer evening listening to fascinating local stories from interesting speakers and living historians in period...
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The Battle of the Brogue?
York County, Pennsylvania, saw several small skirmishes during the Gettysburg Campaign, as well as the June 30, 1863, Battle of Hanover which remains the largest military engagement in the county’s...
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Delta residents organized Sons of Veterans camp after the war
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) is a longstanding fraternal order whose membership consists of direct descendants of Union soldiers who served in the Civil War. It is the legal...
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